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RANK ACTION OF THE POOCE IS WHAT HAS
ATTRACTED CROWDS IN WAITRESSES' STRIKE
When mounted policemen ride
their horses up on the sidewalks in
front of Henrici's and scatter the
crowds, it is always after arrests have
beeh made.
This was the main point dragged
unwillingly and with many questions
from witnesses put on the stand by
Willard McEwen, lawyer for the Res
taurant Keepers' Association, yester
day. It was in the courtroom of Judge
John P. McGoorty. Every bench was
filled with spectators. The Wait
resses' Union was represented by 22
girls and women who have been ar
rested. Two cripples with their arms
in slings were there. All available
standing room was taken and a
crowd that cbuld not get in waited in
the hallway.
At the right on the bench sat the
two solemn senior judges, Windes
and Baldwin, and at the left, Mc
Goorty. The labor crowd listened eagerly
to every scrap of evidence and every
word from the court.
Edgar T. Masters, attorney for the
unions, cross-examined five witnesses
put on by McEwen. Each one ad
mitted that Randolph street is crowd
ed at noon hour, and this congestion
is increased every time the police
break in on the pickets and throw
girls and women' into the patrol
wagon.
Herman Weber, , owner of Union
restaurant across the street from
Henrici's, and a .member of the Res
taurant Keepers' Association, said
the crowds were? bad for business.
Asked whether, crowds were nbtgen
erally good for businessvhe said they
were if the right kind of people were
in the crowd.
"The arrest of pickets attracts a
crowd, of people that is very unde
sirable," said Weber. "Every day I
saw arrests, four or five at a time.
Yes, I think the crowds were bigger
when the police were placing the wo
men tinder arrest."
E. N. Heidkamp, optician, whose
store is across the way from Hen
rici's, testified that he gets business
from people who stop to look in at
his show windows. When pickets are
pinched, crowds are drawn to 'the
street and the police compel those
who are looking in Mr. Heidkamp's
windows to move on. This hurts the
cash register. He said there was
no situation he had witnessed that
the police could not control. He saw
no violence nor disorderly conduct
by pickets. The crowds were always
largest -when the police wagon came
clattering down the pavement. It
was then the mounted police were
called on.
Police Sergeant Anderson, while, on
the stand, admitted that no officer of
any of the unions, neither the wait
resses', cooks', nor bakers', were ask
ed for their knowledge about a strike
at Henrici's.
Philip Henrici said Elizabeth Ma
loney, secretary of the Waitresses'
Union; Fred Ebeling of the Cooks',
and Tony Weth of the Bakers', inter
viewed him in December. He assert
ed they told him, "You will either
unionize your place or we will ruin
your business." He admitted that
this" statement was made to him only
after he had threatened to wreck the
unions.
Att'y Masters formally agreed that
three cries have been uttered by
pickets at Henrici's. These "are:
"Strike on at Henrici's."
"Don't eat under .police protec
tion." "We want $8 and 6 days' work."
OVERDUE NOW
"How is De Fer financially?"
"All at sea."
"Eh?"
"He "says he's, going to pay up ev
erything when his ship comes in."